Hadi Ghaemi

Hadi Ghaemi is the director of International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, a project of the Dutch Foundation for Human Security in the Middle East. (The domain name information for the foundation shows that it is registered by the Nederlands Helsinki Committee and Jan ter Laak. ) In 2008, together with a group of international human rights activists, he founded the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, which has become one of the leading groups reporting and documenting human rights violations in Iran and building international coalitions in defense of Iranian human rights defenders. Aaron Rhodes is another executive of the campaign.

In 2004, Ghaemi joined Human Rights Watch as the Iran and United Arab Emirates researcher in the Middle East and North Africa division. His work at Human Rights Watch focused international attention on the plight of migrant workers in Dubai, as well as repression of civil society in Iran After the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, he was a member of the first UN-commissioned human rights fact finding mission to Afghanistan. Between 2001 and 2004, he worked with NGOs focusing on Afghanistan and Iraq

He came to the United States from Iran in 1983 as a student and received his doctorate in Physics from Boston University in 1994. He was a professor of Physics at the City University of New York until 2000. His groundbreaking research in Nano-Physics has been published in prestigious scientific journals such as Nature. He holds four patents in this field.


 * Former Board Member, National Iranian American Council
 * Contact Person, United4Iran
 * Campaign for Peace and Democracy: Endorsers

Criticism of Ghaemi

 * Ron Jacobs, "Keep Your Eyes On the Prize: Protest US Aggression", Dissident Voice, July 13, 2009.
 * "Ron Jacobs' Retraction", Counterpunch, July 24-26, 2009.

Selected Publications and Media

 * Electrical conductivity of individual carbon nanotubes, 4 July 1996, Nature
 * Extraordinary optical transmission through sub-wavelength hole arrays, , 2 February 1998 Nature
 * Fiber image guide with subwavelength resolution, 9 March 1998, Applied Physics Letters
 * Surface plasmons enhance optical transmission through subwavelength holes, 1998 "Surface plasmons enhance optical transmission through subwavelength holes"], Physical Review B
 * Surface-plasmon-enhanced transmission through hole arrays in Cr films, 1999, Journal of the Optical Society of America B
 * The Human Rights Case Against Attacking Iran, 8 February 2005, The New York Times
 * For Iran, the Man Is the Message, 26 June 2006, The New York Times
 * Building Towers, Cheating Workers, 14 July 2006, Human Rights Watch
 * Iranian Women Activists Gain Momentum, 17 March 2007, National Public Radio
 * Funds for 'Civil Society' in Iran Raise Concerns, 25 May 2007, National Public Radio
 * U.S. Scholar Jailed in Iran, 1 June 2007, National Public Radio
 * What's Behind Iran's Release of Americans?, 6 September 2007, National Public Radio
 * The Human Cost of Ahmadinejad's Rule, 23 September 2008, Huffington Post
 * The State of Human Rights in Iran, 8 February 2009, National Public Radio
 * More of the Same Dysfunctional American Insularity on Human Rights, 8 March 2009, Huffington Post
 * U.S. Journalist Sentenced To Prison In Iran, 18 April 2009, National Public Radio
 * Torture in Iran, 5 April 2009, 60 Minutes
 * Saberi's Release Highlights Prisoners Left Behind, 16 May 2009, National Public Radio
 * Fears of a "Tehran Tiananmen" Growing as Iran Crisis Deepens, 17 June 2009, Huffington Post
 * Reformers, Journalists Already Arrested In Iran, 20 June 2009, National Public Radio
 * U.N. must stand up for rights of Iranians, 13 March 2010, CNN